Fat 32 conversion problem
Lotrat
>>jody wrote:
>>
>>Was also looking forward to fat 32 on my system after a uninventful,
>>happy loading of win98(retain version). I have a 4.5 gig drive that
>>is partitioned into 3 drives. the "d" & "e" converted, but when I
>>tried to convert the "c" drive, the message says no conversion to
>>fat 32 for a drive with marked bad sectors. My system is only 6
>>months old. A pentium 200mmx with 64mg ram. So now what do I do
>>besides formating the entire system and starting over? Can I move
>>everything to one of the other drives, format c and reinstall win98?
>>Be gentle with this old grandmother, who doesn't know a whole lot
>>about this computer stuff......but I love it! I really don't want to
>>purchase partition magic, as this was the option I choose to get the
>>fat 32 (win98) Couldn't afford both.
> krakan wrote:
>
>If your system is only 6 months old, what about getting a new drive???
>I mean its under guarantee and with ghost they can clone the drive to
>a new one and send the old one back...
>I had the same error on a system yesterday and while it COULD have
>been converted in theory it means in practice that a big bad sector
>has to be converted to maybe more then one small bad sectors so its
>really a very cumbersome and lowlevel process which could easily make
>a hard disk lose track of what it is...
>Which is why its not done(g) .
>If you know you have bad sectors and thatss not normal on a new drive,
>complain about that as once you got some, more can follow....
Some manufactures will not take a drive back until it has more than 10 bad
sectors. Check with the manufacturer of your drive about their return policy.
Most HD's carry 5 year warranties. I would backup your data and get a new
drive before it goes.
I typicaly like to keep a hard drive whole. I you want to run another OS, then
get another drive. This way when one drive goes you don't lose everything. If
your system's bios can't handle bigger drives, then install a hard drive bios
utility available from the respective HD manufacturer.
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Michael powers
1.6 gig. One of my coworkers had trouble with one and they sent about a 3.2 to
replace it.